The Church has been amassing wealth for 20 centuries, perhaps 100 generations, from poor, mostly poor people. Great cathedrals, fine churches stand everywhere. The people who paid for them continue to live in grinding poverty . To a poor family a tithe is the difference between sickness and health, education for the child. 20 centuries of robbing from the poor to feed the rich, the Church. Fancy robes are as filthy rags and kissing babies in Brazil cannot atone for the rising stench of the Vatican's Augean Stable, nor is the Pope any Hercules. Ask the rich to contribute more, but first - look in the mirror.

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